Motorcyclists compete in the lightweight GP class race on Saturday during the 2014 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

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| By Rob McCurdy
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The notorious Pikes Peak Hill Climb nearly got the better of the Loudonville resident. In 2012, a year after completing it successfully in his first try, Johansen wrecked his motorcycle on one of the 156 turns that make up the 12-mile time trial up the famed Colorado mountain.

"Yeah, I went back the next year much to everybody's unhappiness," he said. ...